#: 4752 S10/Tandy CoCo
    29-Jun-90  20:27:12
Sb: #4747-#Downloading pcdos.ar
Fm: Dan Robins 73007,2473
To: Denise Tomlinson 71021,3274 (X)

Denise,
   Go ahead and download under RS-DOS, but before you do have DOSOR9 handy and
a freshly formatted OS9 diskette.
   Go to LIB 10 and download RSDOS.AR, -AND- to LIB 9 and download AR09.BIN.
   DOSOR9 BOTH files over to your formatted OS9 disk.
   Now...let's take care of the de-archving file first. You will need to reset
the appropriate attributes to get the thing to fly, so, in ALL following
examples, replace the "/d?" with the drive you are using. You will need to type
the following, to change the attributes:
   ATTR /d?/AR09.BIN PE PW PR E W R
   Next, rename the file to get rid of the .BIN extension, type:
   RENAME /d?/AR09.BIN AR
   Bingo, part one is done. So next, we have to change the attributes to
RSDOS.AR so we can do things with it, type the following:
   ATTR /d?/RSDOS.AR PW PR W R
   Bingo, part two is done....and now to extract the files, you can do this by
typing the following:
   /d?/AR -x /d?/RSDOS.AR       and it should extract the files.
   Keep in mind, if you get any errors, it's likely because OS9 doesn't know
where the programs (like ATTR, RENAME, or AR) are located, so don't be afraid
to give full path descriptors (ie... /d0/cmds/ATTR /d0/RSDOS.AR) to where ever
the programs AND files you need to changes or extract are located.
   Good luck!

   Dan

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